Sim, você tem a essência disso. Algumas coisas para apontar.
Se você puder desligar o servidor antes de tirar o instantâneo, você terá a garantia de obter todos os dados que podem ser armazenados em cache para gravação.
You can take a snapshot of an attached volume that is in use. However, snapshots only capture data that has been written to your Amazon EBS volume at the time the snapshot command is issued. This might exclude any data that has been cached by any applications or the operating system. If you can pause any file writes to the volume long enough to take a snapshot, your snapshot should be complete.
Em segundo lugar, o instantâneo pode não estar disponível imediatamente. Se você tiver que restaurar rapidamente, aguarde o instantâneo ficar fora do estado pending
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Snapshots occur asynchronously; the point-in-time snapshot is created immediately, but the status of the snapshot is pending until the snapshot is complete (when all of the modified blocks have been transferred to Amazon S3), which can take several hours for large initial snapshots or subsequent snapshots where many blocks have changed
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